By defeating the National League West-leading Colorado Rockies three times in a four-game series, the Arizona Diamondbacks now share the lead of the division, 25 games into the season.After a 3-2 victory on Thursday, the Diamondbacks lost on Friday after yet another poor performance by starting pitcher Brandon McCarthy, but…
It might not be the most exciting pick as far as play-making is concerned, but the Arizona Cardinals selected offensive guard Jonathan Cooper with the team’s first-round pick, the seventh pick overall.It’s probably a good pick for the Cardinals, based on the anemic offensive-line play from last year, and you…
Arizona Diamondbacks closer J.J. Putz got his mojo working again last night at Chase Field, pitching three solid strikeouts in the ninth inning to help his team nail down a close 3-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies. Thursday’s win moved the D-backs (13-9) into a tie with the San Francisco…
On Sunday, several employees for Prescott Valley’s minor-league hockey team, the Arizona Sundogs, went into a small lift, intent on staying there until they sold 300 hundred season tickets.As of about 1 p.m. today, they still had 24 more season tickets to sell…
Pinch-hitter Wil Nieves drove home Paul Goldschmidt in the top of the 10th inning today at AT&T Park in San Francisco to give the Arizona Diamondbacks a 3-2 win over the Giants. The victory gave the D-backs the series win and pushed them to 5-0 in extra innings on the…
Arizona Diamondbacks fans watching their team’s battle against the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday evening may have felt a nagging sense of déjà vu sometime around the ninth inning. It’s probably because the game was shaping up to be an exact repeat of how the defending World Series champs beat…
The Arizona Diamondbacks may have dropped two of three games over the weekend to the Colorado Rockies, it quite possibly could have been a complete sweep if not for the impressive efforts of Didi Gregorius. The 23-year-old left-hander, who walloped a pair of base hits during Arizona’s 3-0 loss to…
No thanks to a baseball-collecting douchebag, the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the New York Yankees last night in 12 innings, to avoid being swept in New York.That baseball-collecting douchebag, a dork named Zack Hample, pretty clearly committed fan interference in the bottom of the ninth, when he — wearing Diamondbacks gear…
Arizona Diamondbacks left-handed starting pitcher Wade Miley had the New York Yankees hitters fooled for six innings Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium. In the seventh, it all fell apart for Miley, and the D-backs’ 3-0 lead quickly evaporated before eventually losing 4-3, their second-straight loss in the Bronx. The second-year…
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: The Arizona Diamondbacks lost a hard-fought battle at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx Tuesday night due to a pitching fiasco on their part and epic homers by the home team. No, this is not a rerun from 2001. That said, the D-backs’…
For what it’s worth, the biggest name in women’s basketball was drafted by the Phoenix Mercury Monday.Baylor’s Brittney Griner was taken with the first overall pick in the WNBA draft, meaning she’s probably unlikely to be drafted by the pathetic Phoenix Suns…
Paul Goldschmidt’s walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning yesterday secured a series victory for the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Los Angeles Dodgers.The Diamondbacks took two of three in the series, including yesterday’s 1-0 victory…
With his two home runs this afternoon, outfielder A.J. Pollock doubled his career total and drove in four runs to power the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 10-2 drubbing of the Pittsburgh Pirates at Chase Field. The D-backs struck quickly, scoring three runs in each of the first two innings. The…
Right-hander Brandon McCarthy has not exactly been awesome in his first two starts with the Arizona Diamondbacks.McCarthy gave up six runs, four of them earned, in his start Tuesday against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Chase Field, which proved to be an insurmountable total for D-backs hitters, who posted five runs…
The Arizona Diamondbacks have proved scrappy thus far, as they managed to eke out a couple of victories after battling back during their first two series versus St. Louis and Milwaukee. They struggled to do the same Monday night after falling behind early in a 5-3 loss to the Pittsburgh…
The Arizona Diamondbacks had a tremendous weekend filled with drama, hitting heroics, and — most importantly — winning games as they swept the Milwaukee Brewers during a three-game road series at Miller Park in the Cheesehead State. As a result of their back-to-back-to-back victories, the Snakes are off to one…
There’s no ballpark in Major League Baseball where you can get intoxicated for less money than at Phoenix’s own Chase Field.Fourteen ounces of beer at a Diamondbacks game is $4, which makes the Diamondbacks the cheap-beer champs, according to an annual report on baseball-game costs produced by a company called…
It took a couple minutes short of forever for the Arizona Diamondbacks to beat the St. Louis Cardinals last night/this morning at Chase Field.D-backs shortstop Cliff Pennington, who was acquired in the trade that shipped Chris Young off to Oakland, got the walk-off hit that scored Jason Kubel in the…
Among the things Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers took some heat for this off-season was trading for 35-year-old reliever Heath Bell (and the remainder of his gigantic contract) after a miserable season pitching for the Miami Marlins.Bell’s debut with the Diamondbacks Tuesday night could not have gotten much worse…
It didn’t take long for this year’s Arizona Diamondbacks squad to falter. Opening Day’s exciting win over the St. Louis Cardinals may have been fun and all, but it seemed a distant memory as the D-backs’ were crushed by the redbirds of the Midwest last night in a 6-1 loss…
Carson Palmer of the Oakland Raiders is on his way to the desert. The Associated Press reports that the deal includes a swap for this year’s sixth-round pick for Oakland’s seventh-round pick, and a conditional clause that could trade Arizona’s seventh-round 2014 draft choice as well…
The 2013 Arizona Diamondbacks have won game one of 162. The D-backs defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 6-2 at Chase Field last night, in the team’s first game in the post-Justin Upton era. See also: – Diamondbacks GM Kevin Towers’ “Moneyball” Strategy Isn’t Madness – Arizona Diamondbacks Opening Day at…
